Ward robe-bedstead



(No Model.)

P. GELDOWSKY, Deed. M, G. GELDOWSKY,EXe011triX. WARDROBE BEDSTEAD.

Patented Sept. 6, 1892.

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PATENT OFFICE.

MARTHA C. GELDOWSKY, EXECUTRIX OF FERDINAND GELDOIVSKY, DECEASED, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

WARDROBE-BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,122, dated September 6,1892.

Application filed December 16, 1890- $erial 110,374,950. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that FERDINAND GELDOWSKY, deceased, late of the city of Cambridge,'in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, and a citizen of the United States of America, did invent certain new and useful Improvements in Mantel-Beds, of which the followingis afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of folding beds which have the bed-frame divided transversely into sections hinged end to end and have one section hung on a stand or base, preferably in the shape of a casing for the bed-sections folded upon each other, so that the folded bed-sections can be swung from a horizontal to a vertical position, and vice versa, suitable legs being provided to support the sections when in a horizontal position.

The invention consists in a novel hanging of the bed-frame on the base, all as hereinafter particularly described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the bed-frame opened out and of a base or casing therefor, which at its lower portion is broken away to show the hanging of the inner section of the bed-frame to it. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are views in detail of the camway, Fig. 1, enlarged, and in different positions of it, as will hereinafter appear.

In.the drawings, A and A represent the hinged rails at one side of the two end-to-end hinged sections of a sectional folding bedframe, and B is a base. (Shown as extended upward and making a casing for said sections when they are folded upon each other and swung upward into said casing, and all and otherwise the same as ordinary and well known, except as to the hanging of the inner section of the bed-frame to said base and as to other features to be now described.)

C is a camway held on the inner end portion of the side rail A of the inner bed-section.

D is a horizontal stud held on the base B, and projected into and on which said camway bears or travels.

E is a vertical segmental gear hung on a horizontal axial pin a, of said base and having a projecting arm E with a radial slot Z), engaging a projected pin m of the bed-section, and F is another vertical segmental gear hung on a horizontal axial pin d of said base and weighted at F and in mesh With the firstmentioned segmental gear E.

f g are horizontally-projected stop-pins held on the base and to act in co-operation with abutment-notches h j of the bed-section, as will hereinafter appear.

The devices described, while shown as to one side rail only of the inner bed-frame section, are, as is obvious, similarly repeated as to the other side rail of the same section. The camway C is endless, and in one diameter it is lengthwise of and in the other diameter it is transversely to the side rail of the bedframe section to which it is attached. The end C of the camway toward the inner end of the side rail Ais straight, and the opposite end 0 is a rounded concave, at one end having a straight continuation C to the straight end 0 of the camway and at the other end a rounded concavity C continued in a rounded convexity or bulge C in turn continued in a rounded concavity 0 similar to the rounded concavity C and thereat joining said straight end C of the camway. The rounded concavities C C and the rounded convexity or bulge C are toward the edge A of the rail of the bed-section,that with the bed-section upright on the base A is at the rear of the base,

and that with the bed-section horizontal is uppermost.

The camway described bears and travels on the fixed stud D before referred to, and this stud is located so that with the bed-section upright on the base the rounded concave end C of the camway is then at a bearing thereon and with the bed-section horizontally projected from the base the straight end C and rounded concavity C of the camway are then at a bearing thereon. In moving the bed-section into a vertical from a horizontal position, and vice versa, the camway will at all times be at a bearing and rest on the stud D, allowing and securing by its rounded bulge C and rounded concavities C C on opposite sides thereof, in the one instance, first a drop followed. by a lift of the bed-section, and in the other instance alift followed by a drop of the bed-section. The bed-section as it is swung as described is moved lengthwise on the base,

in its downward swing outward from and in its upward swingdownward intothebase. The outward and downward movements of the bedsection relative to its base, as described, are limited-the outward by the abutment and engagement of the notch h of the bed-section with the stop-pin f of the base and the inward by the abutment and engagement of the notch j with the stop-pin g of the base. The swing- :0 ing outward and downward movements of the bed-section, as explained, actuat'es the meshing segmental gears E F, thereby, as the gear F is weighted, securing a counter-balance of the load or weight of the bed section or seetions on swinging them relative to the base,"

as has been explained. c

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a bed-frame and the base therefor, of a cam-way which is held on the side rail of said bed-frame and has straight and rounded concave opposite end portions 0 G a straightportion 0 along one 2 5 of its sides and joining said ends (J 0 rounded concave portions 0 (J and a'rounded convex portion 0 between said-concave portions and severallyalong the-other of its sides and joining each other and said end portions C 0 C and a stud D,held on said base and having said camway bearingthereon, as described, for the purposes specified.-

2. The combination, with-abed-frame and i the base therefor, of a camway=which is held on the side railof 'saidbed-frame and has straight and rounded concave opposite end portions 0 C ,a straightportion alon gone of its sides and joining said ends 0 0 round-- ed concave portions C (3 and a rounded convex portion C between said concave portions and severally along the other of its sides and joining each other and said end portions 0 0 a stud D, held on said base and having said camway bearing thereon, weighted gears F and gear E, both hung on said baseand meshing each other,and the gearE having a slotted arm or extension E and a stud m on side rail of bed-frame and engaging said slotied arm, as described, for the purposes speci- 3. The combination, with a bed-frame and the base therefor,of a camwaywhichis held on theside rail of said bed-frame and has straight and rounded concave opposite end portions (J 0 a straight portion 0 along one of its sides and joining said ends C 0 rounded concave portions 0 C and a rounded convex portion 0 between said concave portions and severally along the other of its sides and joining each other and said end portionsC 0 a stud D, held on said base and having said camway bearingthereon, stops h j on the side rail of the bed-frame, and stops f g on the base, adapted to act in co-operation, as described, for the purposes specified;

Intestimony whereof I, MARTHA O. GEL- DOWSKY, as executrix of the last'will and testament of said FERDINANDGELDOWSKY, de-

,. ceased, have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARTHA O. GELDOWSKY,

Ewecut'riw. Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, 1 FRANCES M. BROWN. 

